Walk, Pray, Work And March for Life

Nathanael has Walked for Pro-Life, in fact he walked 27 miles in one day, on the 15th Annual GK Chesterton Walking Pilgrimage. So far he has raised £2,664 to help the life saving work of Good Counsel, you can still donate here to help him reach is goal of £2,700.

The eleventh annual March for Life UK, will take place on Saturday 6th September. Please come to the March and do visit us on the Good Counsel Network stall in The Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW, between 10am and 12.30pm, for free badges, learn about our life saving work, our intern programme, our daily Pro-Life Prayer Vigils & how Adoration will end abortion. There will be talks, workshops and activities in the morning at The Emmanuel Centre, to suit all ages.

The March for Life is always a nice peaceful Family friendly event, so please do come along. This year seven Catholic Bishops will be attending.

There are coaches travelling to London for the March from all over the country, details are here.

The March itself starts at 1.30pm outside The Emmanuel Centre.

Work for Pro-Life, a job is going for a Bookeeper, see here

Pray for Life, send us an email now, to join our Days of Prayer and Fasting for Life, our Adoration Rota, our Rosary Rota and to recieve some of our prayercards, we know of hundreds of women who have continued in difficult pregnancies because of the Graces they have recieved through prayer,

info@GoodCounselNetwork.com

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Summer & Longer Good Counsel Volunteer Workers Internship Programme

I have been amazed to find that nearly every day a woman outside an abortion clinic turns and chooses to take up our offer of help instead of going in for an abortion. 

Jess Almeida, Good Counsel Intern, now Sr Jess of the 

Sisters of the Gospel of Life, Glasgow.

Left Baby "Marla" whose mum chose life

Looking for an interesting and challenging project for the summer? Or for the next few months? Volunteer for Good Counsel's Intern Programme or the Summer Mini-Internship and learn how to take part in front line prolife work in a peaceful and prayerful Catholic atmosphere. It can be very hard work but it also has been extremely fruitful in terms of the number of babies saved and extremely fruitful in the lives of those involved in the programme. It has also been a decisive moment in the lives of some of our interns, helping them to discern their future careers or vocations. Some interns have gone on to work long-term for the Good Counsel Network, or for other pro-life groups. Some have discovered a vocation. Others want to take the skills they have learned back to their own countries or towns.

 

Interns working together

Full Internships (3 months)

Interns volunteer full time with us and have the opportunity to learn:

                How to start and run a successful Crisis Pregnancy Centre

                How to start and run a vigil at an abortion centre

                How to run a 40 Days for Life campaign

                How to advise and support a pregnant woman in a crisis

                How to remain faithful to the Catholic Church’s teachings in all aspects of your                       prolife work

Internships are offered for a 3 month periods. Interns live in London and receive a subsistence allowance, travel expenses and free accommodation. They live as part of a community, praying and working together. There are men’s and women’s intern houses.

 Interns socialising together

Summer Mini-Internships (4-6 weeks)

Summer mini-internships last from 4-6 weeks and provide a basic grounding in running vigils and basic skills for offering women alternatives to abortion, as well as a grounding in pro-life issues such as the law on abortion in the UK, the law in practise, foetal development and abortion.

Accommodation and allowances are the same as for the full internship (above). Mini-internships are available between June and September only.

If you are interested, please email fredathome2@yahoo.co.uk and send your CV or a covering letter with a brief outline of your work history, studies, plans and the reasons for your interest in the Programme.

More Interns working hard...

 “It was an honour to get to walk mothers through a difficult time in their lives. To help mothers who have had abortions towards healing. And it was an honour to get to hold the babies who otherwise wouldn’t be there. To be a part of the story of people whose lives are going to change the world somehow just because they got the chance to live.”

                                                                                               Charis, Good Counsel Intern

Clare McCullough

New Intake for Good Counsel's Intern Programme

Following on the success of our first Intern Programme, we plan to continue the Programme for men and women of all ages who want to make a full-time temporary commitment to our work.

The Programme allows those wishing to get hands on experience in frontline pro-life work, such as pavement counselling and working in a Catholic Pregnancy Centre, to do so.

All interns will receive expert training. Interns receive free accommodation and living costs and will live together in a community, praying and working together. There are two houses, one for men and one for women.

Although we are strapped for cash at the present, we have decided to continue the programme as so far the Interns have helped to save many, many lives, including 4 turnarounds from Whitfield St marie stopes in one week.

Intern placements are available for periods of 2 to 6 months commencing on 1st September. Please email me if you are interested info@goodcounselnetwork.freeserve.co.uk

If you have applied previously, but we didn't have enough places available, you are welcome to apply again.

Clare McCullough

Hope and Generosity

I have been attending the prayer vigils and counselling outside the Marie Stopes abortuary in Whitfield Street for the last week and a half, with Justyna, Eddie and several other supporters of the Good Counsel Network. Unfortunately there have been no turn-arounds at Whitfield Street as far as we know during this time, but we can hope and pray that some of the leaflets that we handed out, or the conversations we managed to have with women who went in might have had a “delayed action” effect and they might have changed their mind. This can be disheartening and I might be tempted to think that this method does not work, but last Saturday a couple chose life for their baby at another abortuary in Ealing after having talked to a volunteer. “That’s my baby”, said the father, showing the scan. And we know that God hears all the prayers we direct to Him, so we have to keep knocking on the door, like the friend that came late at night asking for bread.
Good Counsel needs donations to make it’s work possible. This morning something quite extraordinary happened. When Justyna and I were praying while Lorraine was counselling, two homeless Polish men saw the “exhibit for life” on the pavement, approached us and one of them tried to give us some money. We explained what we were doing there and that we were not asking for money. But these coins were really the “widow’s mite”, an example of generosity
that puts all of us to shame.

Jesus Gonzalez Nicolas

Good Counsel Launches Intern Programme

Happy Feast of the Annunciation. The Good Counsel Network chose today to launch it's new Intern Programme.

The Programme allows those wishing to get hands on experience in frontline pro-life work, such as pavement counselling and working in a Catholic Pregnancy Centre, to do so. All interns will receive expert training.

Interns receive free accommodation and living costs and will live together in a community, praying and working together. Our first female intern starts work next week when the Women's Intern House opens. The men's house will follow shortly.

Intern placements are available for periods of 2 and 3 months. please email us if you are interested info@goodcounselnetwork.freeserve.co.uk

Clare McCullough